おはよございます！ おげんきですか？

I have been very inactive on this blog as of late, and for that I apologize. But good news is, I will be studying a lot, and that means I can put my notes here.


おはよございます！　おげんきですか？
ohayogozaimasu          ogenkidesuka?

Good morning!            How are you?

pronounced:

oh-hai-yoh goh-zai-mahss  oh-gen-key-dess-kah?



o genki desu ka can also be written as お元気ですか。Where the middle two characters are in katakana and not in hirogana.

Katakana is a little more complex than herogana, in that you must remember that each character has a meaning and an assoiciated sound rather than a sound alone. Don't worry! If you are learning Chinese at the same time your life will become much less stressed. Here's why:

The character for day in Chinese is  天 tian
and the character for day in katakana is 天 .

There are other similarities like with numbers.


ENG:
1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10

CHIN:

一  二  三  四  五  六  七  八  九  十

yi   er  san  si   wu  liu  qi  ba  jiu  shi


JAP:
一        二    三       四       五        六           七              八        九     十

ichi       ni   san      shi      go        roku          nana      hachi     ku      ju



More on numbers (Japanese) (Chinese) (Korean) (French)